If you want sustainable revenue growth, you cannot treat rainmaking as a personality trait. You must treat it as a professional discipline — one that is intentionally developed through structured partner development based on a proven framework.
Law firms often approach executive staff hiring with a fraction of that rigor they spend on recruiting partners and laterals. The result is a category of mistake that is expensive, slow to surface, and entirely preventable.
This article discusses two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that suggest courts may be seeking to rein in the use of these financial tools of criminal and civil enforcement.
The cyber insurance industry has long been dominated by conversations around security threats. Privacy concerns were often treated as an afterthought. But recently, there has been a critical shift: privacy risks that arise outside of traditional breaches are now front and center.
When a patent claims software that computes a charging schedule and then makes charging occur, the Federal Circuit may require the system, not the driver, to cause the charge event.
This article discusses consideration that should be given to guaranties in connection with loan modifications and effective methods for protecting the enforceability of a guaranty in the face of loan modifications.
In the second part of a two-part article addressing patent standing issues common to companies in the life sciences industry, we examine additional patent standing complications and discuss how mid-litigation transfers of ownership may affect standing, and how standing issues may ultimately impact the availability and scope of damages.
Effective meetings are not incidental to law practice, they are integral to it. Structured meetings produce clear decisions, defined accountability, efficient client service, and alignment with professional responsibility.
In legal, accounting and other professional services technology markets, firms aren’t just buying software. They’re selecting partners who will influence workflows, compliance posture, sensitive data, client experience and even brand reputation. The stakes are high, so buyers move cautiously by design. In that environment, marketing’s real job isn’t just generating attention; it’s building confidence over time that you are a safe, competent, dependable choice.
Every decision to onboard a client, partner, lateral hire, contractor, consultant or expert witness carries risk. Yet despite the increasing complexity of that risk, many firms continue to rely on onboarding practices that have not kept pace with the digital world in which their clients and people operate. The result is a widening gap between how risk actually manifests today and how it is assessed at the point of onboarding.
